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INDEX. 



Greenland discovered by the Northmen, 10; visited 

 by the brothers Zeni, 11. 



Grotius, Hugo, his theory of the peopling of Ame- 

 rica, 13. 



Gulf Stream, its course and other peculiarities, 143- 

 145. 



Guyot, Prof. A., his theory of the American conti- 

 nent and its inhabitants, 95, 97. 



H. 



Hamconius. See Hamkema. 



Harnkema, Martin, his supposed origin of the Peru- 

 vians and Chilians, 13. 



Hancock, Dr., his opinion of an approximation in 

 the negro physiognomy to the European model, 

 96. 



Hanno the Carthaginian, his " Pcriplus," 7. 



Harris, Rev. T. M., his opinion of the design of the 

 earthworks, 31. 



Harrison, President W., his discourse on the mounds 

 of Ohio and their builders, 108-110. 



Hawks, Rev. Francis L., translator of Rivero and Von 

 Tscbudi on Peru, 15. 



Ilawley, Rev. Gideon, his remarks on Indian stone- 

 heaps, 29. 



Haywood, John, his archaeological speculations, 38. 



Heart, Capt., his drawing of earthworks at Mari- 

 etta, 23, 24 ; account of various earthworks, 24. 



Hcckewelder, Rev. John, his account of the Dela- 

 ware traditions referring to ancient fortifications, 

 43-47. 



Henry, Alexander, directed an English mining com- 

 pany on Onontagon river, 128. 



Herodotus, his account of the expedition ordered by 

 Pharaoh Necho, 8. 



Hesperides islands, legends of, 7 ; supposed by 

 Oviedo to be the Antilles, 12. 



Hindoos, supposition that they may have been the 

 mound-builders, 36, 37. 



Hippocrates, his statement of the former existence 

 of Maerocephali, or Longheads, 103. 



Homer, an authority for the island of Atlantis, 6. 



Hontan, La, account of a medal found by him, 

 18. 



Horn, Prof., his theory of the peopling of America, 

 14. 



Horseley, Bishop, on Seneca's so-called prophecy, 6. 



Humboldt, Alexander, his remarks on Seneca's so- 

 called prophecy, 6; suggests classification of Ame- 

 rican tribes according to languages, 61; on the 

 formation of words in the American languages, 

 71 ; denies the identity of the Americans, Mon- 

 gols, and Malays, 74 ; his theory of the natural 



origin of flattened heads, 101 ; speaks of tribes 



of a whitish complexion in Guiana, 147. 

 Humboldt, William, a contributor to the " Mithri- 



dates," 58. 

 Humphreys, Oliver, his story of Welsh Indians, 26, 



note. 



Inclosures, 119, 120, 153. 



Inscriptions on stones, 19, 28, 107, 132-135. 



Irish, Scandinavian story of their expedition to Ame- 

 rica, 10, 15, 20, note. 



Iroquois, thought to have produced all the earth- 

 works of New York State, 125, 157. 



Israelites, supposed to have peopled America, 5, 14, 

 20, 139. 



J. 



Jackson, Dr. Chas. T., his surveys of the Lake Su- 

 perior region, 127. 



Jefferson, Thos., his opinion of the antiquity of the 

 American nations, 22 ; recommends the investi- 

 gation of the Indian languages, 56 ; vocabularies 

 presented by him to the American Philosophi- 

 cal Society, 58 ; his derivation of the American 

 Indians from eastern Asia, 74. 



Joctan, supposed to have founded a city in Peru, 4. 



Jomard, M., supposes the Grave Creek stone in- 

 scription to be Libyan, 28. 



Jones, Rev. David, his notice of earthworks in Ohio, 

 21. 



Jones, George, his theory of the Tyrian emigration 

 and introduction of Christianity into America, 15. 



Jones, Rev. Morgan, his story that the Tusearoras 

 understood Welsh, 26, note. 



K. 



Kain, John H., his account of mounds in east Ten- 

 nessee, 42. 



Kalm, Peter, his observations on American antiqui- 

 ties, 19. 



Kames, Lord, his theory of the peopling of Ame- 

 rica, 4. 



Kentucky, notice of earthworks in, 22 ; traditions 

 of white Indians in, 49, 50. 



Kingsborough, Lord, his theory of the peopling of 

 America, 6. 



Kinmont, A., his theory of an innate tendency in 

 man to originate distinct races, 93. 



Kircher, Athanasius, his theory of the peopling of 

 America, 13. 



